There's already a workaround (found, again, here), but I figured I would use this opportunity to tell people that projects like Piped and Invidious exist, which both allow you to watch YouTube without loading their ads, with improved Privacy and (in the case of Piped) even Geoblocking-Circumvention and SponsorBlock out of the box.

They're both great tools, and using something like LibRedirect you can even automatically go to Piped or Invidious when clicking/opening a YouTube link (and more).

Both don't load ads, but unless changed in the settings Individous may still make connections to Google/YouTube to load the video(s) themselves.

Bit of a shameless plug for these projects, but I figured this is a really good time to show these projects as I often see people asking what they are in threads on here

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[–] db2@sopuli.xyz 10 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I'll stick with revanced, there really isn't anything they can do to stop it long term.

[–] twistedtxb@lemmy.ca 11 points 2 years ago

Revanced is pretty much perfect for my needs.

And SmartTube on my Android TV.

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